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Disable edit if comments is older than .. minutes.

torzaktorzak
edited April 2009 in Vanilla 1.0 Help
Hello, I'm looking for an addons that disable the possibility to edit a comment by his original poster if the comment date is older than XX minutes. Thanks !

Comments

  • melatoninmelatonin
    Yeah, Vanilla is in dire need of restrictions on users editing their own posts.
  • oliverraduneroliverraduner ✭✭
    THIS screams for a plugin ;-)

    Are you guys talking about Vanilla 1 or Vanilla 2?
  • RainulfRainulf New
    +1 for this addon. Though I could care less for Vanilla 1, but Vanilla 2 is a must.
  • TiGRTiGR ✭
    Plugin created: http://vanillaforums.org/addon/567/edit-timeout
  • melatoninmelatonin
    TiGR-
    Edit Timeout would be great if two things were changed:

    1 - The obvious. Users can just bypass and go straight to the URL to edit a post even if there is no link there.

    2 - Setting the timeout shouldn't be such a cumbersome drop down menu. Why not just a text field and a drop down with these options: Seconds, Minutes, Days, Weeks, Months, Years. This way, I can say in the plug-in options, "Stop users from editing their own posts after 90 seconds," for instance.

    But, really, since I can just go into the plugin source itself and modify #2, #1 is the more pressing issue.
  • TiGRTiGR ✭
    @melatonin, new version uploaded, forms are no longer accessible via direct urls.
  • melatoninmelatonin
    edited July 2010
    @TiGR, you're a savior!
    To go one step further, it'd be great if there was an option in the dropdown for "immediately" to prevent editing at all.
  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    @TIGR - I tried this plugin out, and I found that it was causing some other plugin options to be removed due to the way you preg_replaced the edit button. I started to work on your plugin to make it work in a different way, and I realized that it would just be a lot less code to put this in the core as an option. So, I added a single configuration setting that handles it. You can see the changes and commit here:

    http://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/commit/5decbe370cbf8357648d30b401f9a72f49963303
  • TiGRTiGR ✭
    edited July 2010
    @Mark, I am always on top of Git, so I've noticed your latest commits ;)

    This is good solution. However, the only thing could be changed, IMHO, is how user selects the timeout. Having timeout set in seconds is not very user-friendly, moreover, having timout less that 1 minute is nonsense, since in most cases users won't be able to finish edit within this time.

    I suggest making it in minutes or doing as @melatonin suggested.
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